Show A rival of the in the vast sierra wilderness far to the southward of the famous yosemite yoe emite valley there is a yet grander hauey of fie same kind it la situated on the south fork of kings river above the moat extensive grovee and forests of the glant sequoia and beneath the shadows of highest mountains in the range where the canyons are deepest and the enow laden peaks are crowded mos together it is called tha big king a river canyon cr biver and is reached by way of visalla Vi salla the nearest point on the southern pacific railroad from which the distance la about forty five miles or by tha kear carge pass from the east aide of the range it is about sen miles longi f a mi wide and the stupendous rocks of purplish gray granite that form the walls are from to feet height in while the depth of the valley below the general surface of the mountain masa from which it has been carved is conail drably more than a mile thus it ap pears that this new yosemite la longer and deeper and liea im bedded in grander j mountains than the well known ite of the merced their beneral char ackers however are wonderfully alike and they bear the same relationship tc the fountains of the ancient abobo them john agnir in century |